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A common condition

This series draws attention to the immediate and long term dangers that non-communicable diseases – including heart and respiratory diseases, cancers, and diabetes – pose to individuals living in the developing world

  • A woman wearing a face mask and a white laboratory coat holds up two pipettes as another researcher looks on

    Healthier rice variety could counter rise in diabetes, Philippine scientists say

    Researchers develop grain with lower glycaemic index and more protein that ‘could have big impact in Asia and Africa’
  • A man seen from above, eating a bowl of instant noodles at a rough table covered with sackcloth

    Time for a noodle tax? Doctor who sounded alarm on ultra-processed food urges tougher action

    Carlos Monteiro says the links between UPF and obesity, diabetes and even mental ill health are so strong that manufacturers should face taxes just like tobacco firms
  • A medical worker guides a patient as they walk in a hospital ward

    As a cancer care expert, my fears over my own diagnosis run deeper than just curing the disease

    Jeff Dunn
    My treatment for aggressive lymphoma has been successful but severely weakened my immune system. Like many others, antimicrobial resistance could kill me, even if the cancer itself is survivable
  • Four Mongolian women look unsmiling to camera.

    Cabbage and potatoes are not the only vegetables: can these female farmers persuade Mongolia to change its diet?

    In a country where nearly a third of under-fives are anaemic, a lack of vegetables has contributed to poor health and high cancer rates. Now that’s beginning to change as tomatoes, cucumber and celery are cultivated
  • 2024 оны нэгдүгээр сарын 4. Хавдарын үндэсний төв. ГЭРЭЛ ЗУРГИЙГ Б.БЯМБА-ОЧИР/MPA Image from an interview at the National Cancer Center, Mongolia

    Mongolia’s ambitious programme to tackle cancer death rates reaches 40% of population

    Screening project aims to reduce highest cancer mortality rate in the world, but nomadic way of life means many in rural areas are unaware of services
  • Sad young African man thinking and looking depressed

    Campaign to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations gains momentum

    New coalition formed to push for repeal of colonial-era laws and reduce barriers to access for those seeking mental health help
  • Portrait of a black woman sitting in a chair next to a computer with a screensaver reading: 'Brain Health Initiative Nigeria'

    ‘They wanted her to confess to witchcraft’: ending the chilling effects of dementia stigma in Nigeria

  • Elizabeth Odondi standing by a bridge in a garden

    I told my high school friend we’d battle sickle cell together. But she didn’t make it past 18

  • The Food Security and Agriculture Cluster team team distributes dry food rations. April 2023

    ‘There was no other option’: the aid packages feeding diabetes and heart disease in the Pacific islands

    Increasingly frequent natural disasters leave islanders reliant on processed foods for months on end – with deeply concerning knock-on effects to health
  • Sayed Ahmed with his arm around his wife Amena Khatun by the Rupsha River in Khulna, Bangladesh

    ‘It’s in our rivers and in our cups. There’s no escape’: the deadly spread of salt water in Bangladesh

    Kidney disease is on the rise in coastal communities, where some have no choice but to drink and cook with contaminated water
  • A woman seen in silhouette with a cigarette in front of the Philip Morris International logo

    Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’

    Philip Morris International has supported non-smoking programmes around the world ‘to advance its own interests’, say health professionals
  • Large electricity generators, fuelled by diesel, in the streets of Beirut, Lebanon.

    ‘Where can you hide from pollution?’: cancer rises 30% in Beirut as diesel generators poison city

    Lebanon’s economy and electricity system are broken and much power is now generated locally, with devastating effects on air quality and health
  • The message 'end epilepsy stigma' is seen written on seven hands joined together

    The ‘epilepsy warriors’ breaking down the barriers in Cameroon

    Amid alarming rates of the illness, many living with it are seen as cursed. Now these myths are being challenged
  • A woman in a pink and orange sari uses a bucket to collect water from a pond

    ‘Headaches, organ damage and even death’: how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk

    As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia
  • Two vials of semaglutide.

    Study: ‘gamechanger’ diabetes drugs cost up to 400 times more than needed

    Drug companies urged to ‘release stranglehold’ on medicines such as Ozempic and Trulicity, as millions are priced out of treatment
  • An elderly man with glasses on a balcony overlooking a city street in Dhaka

    Cars before people: how chaotic, polluted Dhaka is failing its elderly citizens

    Pollution, traffic, noise – the busy streets of the Bangladeshi capital prohibit many who are ill or have limited mobility from leaving their homes, posing further risks to their health
  • People play basketball against an abandoned boat at Anibare harbour.

    If a diabetes policy of diet and exercise keeps failing, is it time for a new approach?

    Amy McLennan
    On the Pacific island of Nauru the disease has been addressed in the same way for 50 years, but evidence of other factors – from poor air to stress – challenge our assumptions
  • Mural Painting In Mumbai, India - 08 Nov 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (14198304b) A woman walks past a mural painting of pollution on a wall in Mumbai, India, 08 November, 2023. Mumbai pollution worsens as many areas report 'poor' air quality with AQI above 250 according to an Indian media report. Mural Painting In Mumbai, India - 08 Nov 2023

    Calls for a global fund to tackle air pollution, killer of 7m a year

    Health campaigners are voicing concerns that the issue is being neglected – despite the devastating death toll around the world
  • Noor Saimun in her shelter in a refugee camp for Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district

    ‘Life is meaningless’: despair in Cox’s Bazar as chronic illness blights camps

    Many Rohingya refugees, who fled genocide in Myanmar for camps in Bangladesh, now find their lives devastated by diseases such as cancer and diabetes
  • A Palestinian women receiving dialysis treatment is being deprived from the necessary treatments due to the electricity crisis and lack of medication at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as the Israeli attacks continue in Deir Al Balah, Gaza on February 8, 2024

    Patients with chronic illnesses in Gaza failing to get treatment, doctors warn

    The lack of medicine, food and water means thousands of people with asthma, kidney disease or diabetes are unable to treat or control their conditions
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